Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
65. Things that have to be hidden (4)
After that, on the surface ordinary days passed by for a while.
It was especially so in our class case.
The conflict between Han Yi and Dokgo Miro wasn’t solved, but the two often went to a store together and talked about Gong Cheonghwon.
‘In this way, they seem just like ordinary friends.’
After the spar, I witnessed Dokgo Miro’s homema Jeong Haeon talking with Han Yi.
It appeared that even though Han Yi couldn’t directly ask Dokgo Miro, she didn’t give up yet.
But thanks to Hwang Jiho meticulously erasing traces, it seemed difficult to figure things out with Han Yi’s power.
‘Kwon Lena also seemed busy this week.’
Even Kwon Jane contacted me and asked to take good care of Kwon Lena.
She probably noticed that Kwon Lena was working hard to find out about Lee Yeoreum.
As this matter was related to Lee Yeoreum, who Kwon Lena believed to be her biological older sister, it seemed she couldn’t think of interfering with it and was going to just protect her.
‘According to Hong Gyubin, they’re currently in the middle of a search and seizure of Namkung Products Otherworld Industry team no. 1.’
The Association’s Regulation Enforcement Department moved after they received a court warrant.
Perhaps because the relationship between government and the Association was growing worse, or perhaps it was a simple bureaucracy problem, he said it had taken some time to receive the warrant.
‘… A warrant is issued by a court of judiciary. So whether the Association and the administration’s relationship is good or bad, it should have no bearings on it, right?’
The world didn’t work in such a fair way.
Especially for Players.
There was a Playable Character, who worked to overturn this situation.
‘He said that his dream is for the Players to be treated fairly in front of the law.’
That Playable Character was a partner defense lawyer in a law firm specializing in superpower incidents.
The Playable Character’s main job was a free lawyer for the Players, who were falsely accused.
‘Because there are people, who even though they have no abilities good enough for item production or the otherworld conquests, are discriminated against because they’re marked as Players.’
Because he didn’t obtain much money through such defense cases, he sometimes went to conquer the otherworlds.
I’m saying sometimes, but in fact, because there were almost no cases, his main job would be otherworld conquest.
There were even many people who treated that law office as one of the otherworld conquest pro Player teams.
As such, with accepting a certain case as a trigger, the partner defense lawyer appeared in PMH as a Playable Character.
‘… At the moment, there are probably no matters involving the Dark Mastermind.’
Anyhow, the Association finally obtained the search and seizure warrant and was said to succeed in ambushing the Namkung Products Otherworld Industry team 1.
The Regulation Enforcement Department quickly collected all devices, chips and printed documents.
As the target of the search and seize was a conglomerate, it wouldn’t be strange if it made it into the press headlines, but I guess they played some kind of move.
Even if you searched by the articles about Namkung Products, they only talked about the one of three last people on the audition program ‘Playlist’, the employee, and the incident that occurred during the recording.
According to Hong Gyubin, when considering the quality and content of the seized information, there seemed to be no problems, but it seemed that something continued to bother him.
[Hong Gyubin] The search and seizing of the office went on smoothly, but something is strange.
[Hong Gyubin] As even when we interview the employees, their testimonies contradicted each other, we just need to obtain objective materials, but…
[Hong Gyubin] It took too much time until the warrant came out.
[Hong Gyubin] I don’t have a good premonition about it.
Hong Gyubin had a Foresight skill.
So his premonitions weren’t to be taken lightly.
The Foresight skill didn’t activate, but it seemed that a lot of things bothered him.
As the martial analysis is being delayed, it seems better to prepare to wait for a while.
‘… He will be probably busy. Things need time.’
Thanks to the TC Research Institute incident exploding at the same time, they ended up facing two conglomerates — it seemed that the Association’s employees must be dying.
There was still some time left until Eungwang School’s festival, but will Hong Gyubin be able to go see Jegal Jaegeol 3D photobook?
If there was a first edition portfolio or printed version, I’d have to make sure to obtain it.
On the other hand, the people from our class who refused to attend school, the attention seeker no. 1 and attention seeker no. 2, were often discovered throughout this week.
‘Why don’t they attend if they’re coming to school…’
The self-proclaimed Luis Perenna, the Phantom Thief Neon and Gu Seulbi were hovering around our class, persistently observing us.
It seemed they were researching when and how to appear to attract the attention.
Even in PMH, the two poured their strength and mental faculties into useless things, but seeing it in reality, it was even more so.
The two attention seekers would immediately flee once they were quickly discovered by the teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim or Hwang Jiho.
It seemed they weren’t able to find the best timing to make an appearance, but their fleeing abilities improved tremendously.
‘… if you flee so well, you will be safe for a while, not matter what you do.’
I tried to think so, but didn’t the two meet their final ends after fighting back against the Dark Mastermind?
Nothing happened yet that would make the two people fight back against the Dark Mastermind, but I couldn’t help but be anxious.
As I couldn’t forcibly drag them to attend the school with me, my head hurt thinking about the two.
‘First, I should worry about the people who are attending school.’
Because there was nothing useful, even if I worried, I postponed thinking.
If I had to pinpoint the being that was most eye-grabbing in our class this week, it would decisively be Yong Jegeon.
It seemed that Yong Jegeon and Kim Sinrok had a fight again.
Coincidentally, I had an opportunity to talk with the two people about this case.
I didn’t ask, but Yong Jegeon spoke about it:
— Sinrok-yi prepared an event, but I guess he is angry because I broke through it too easily.
— … an event?
— How should I describe it… ah, the event was a treasure hunt.
… Treasure?
I couldn’t at all imagine Kim Sinrok hiding treasures for Yong Jegeon.
As expected, Kim Sinrok spoke with a pissed voice.
— You liked the treasure?
— Ye, I like it.
Kim Sinrok spoke sarcastically, but Yong Jegeon seemed to be in an even better mood instead.
While making inside scratching sounds, Yong Jegeon took out a square space from his pocket.
The space was full of small thumbtacks.
Seeing this, I could guess the situation.
‘Kim Sinrok hid thumbtacks in revenge, but Yong Jegeon found them all, huh?’
Yong Jegeon grasped the fist-sized space in his hand and waved it in front of Kim Sinrok.
Every time he heard the jingling sound, Kim Sinrok’s expression became worse.
No matter how I thought about it, the surprise thumbtack event was not the origin of Kim Sinrok’s anger, but Yong Jegeon seemed to deliberately pretend not to know it.
When that standoff continued in a deserted corridor, An Dain appeared.
At An Dain’s appearance, Kim Sinrok was flustered and hid the mechanical pencil lead reinforced with superpowers.
— Teacher Kim Sinrok-nim, I have something I want to consult on the class management.
At An Dain’s words, Kim Sinrok made an apologetic face.
It seemed he felt guilt at he words class management.
He didn’t express it with words, but his feelings were clearly visible.
He seemed to be sorry that his student had such trouble that she came to consult with him, but he was wasting time facing off against such a dragon.
— … Okay. Let’s talk. Sanghun-i doesn’t come to school these days, so Dain’s burden must be a lot, huh?
— No, it’s because we want to choose a temporary vice class president in case I’m absent. The class kids are waiting.
— Did you talk with Sanghun-i?
— Yes, he said it’s no problem even if we change vice class president, but… I plan to stop that.
An Dain naturally separated Kim Sinrok and Yong Jegeon.
An Dain gazed for a moment at Yong Jegeon, who was shaking the box of thumbtacks as if for show, and her eyes were extremely sharp.
‘… It’s the eyes that see the target behind the scope.’
Shooter of Divine Bullets An Dain usually shot even with a naked eye, matching her alias, but she sometimes used a scope.
When weather was bad, or the target was at extreme distance.
At those times, she would install a gun sight on a gun, and stare at the target — when playing An Dain in PMH, a cutscene of this would be added.
It was just a moment, but An Dain stared at Yong Jegeon with that eye.
That gaze reminded me what Yu Sang-hun had told me.
— It seems that your vice homeroom teacher often picks fights with our homeroom teacher.
— There are many fans of our homeroom teacher in our class. They said that if it seemed that our homeroom teacher kept having a hard time, they were planning to attack Yong Jegeon. I don’t plan on stopping it.
Yu Sang-hun, who had no plans of participating, even if he wasn’t going to stop it, wasn’t coming to school these days.
As such, only hardliners might have remained in the 1st year class 1.
‘The 1st year class 1 may really target Yong Jegeon.’
Yong Jegeon had an ecstatic face as if he also thought that.
For now, I decided to take the same stand as Yu Sang-hun.
‘I have to talk to Gye Idam or Seong Siwan.’
The ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’ was revealed to have other secrets, it was necessary to investigate more into the secret passage.
For this, I tried to talk with the two people of the Earthly Wings Council, but the Earthly Wings Council seemed seriously busy.
— The 3rd year class 0’s seniors-nim raided teacher exclusive store!
— The 3rd year class 0 is currently in a stand-off with the store employees.
— Hey, call Idam!
— … can’t we just call Siwan hyung?
The day I went looking for the Earthly Wings Council, they seemed busy solving the incident caused by the 3rd year class 0.
I guess robbing all the bread from the stores used by students was insufficient for the 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards.
Their goal was securing the bread at the teacher store and getting the snacks liked by the 3rd year class 0’s strong homeroom teacher Im Yeonhwa.
It was so childish no one would have thought they were the 3rd years of Eungwang School, but I heard that at first she showed a reaction like she was lightly hurt.
— You coveted teacher-nim’s snacks so much? How could you guys become so crooked…! The training was insufficient, huh!
When the stick sausage[1] Im Yeonhwa always sung praises for was completely sold out, she made a very sad face.
It seemed she at last started to doubt her students’ characters.
But it seemed to be already too late.
The 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards were almost about to celebrate the victory, when Im Yeonhwa took out about 100 packages of sausages she secured for personal use and smiled affectionately.
— Don’t cause trouble at the store in the future and ask teacher-nim~! If you win an arm wrestle with teacher-nim, I’ll give you one package.
The stock secured by Im Yeonhwa was enormous, so in fact she suffered no damage.
In the end the 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards failed to steal Im Yeonhwa’s enjoyment.
I heard that they challenged Im Yeonhwa in arm wrestling, but all of them passed out of exhaustion, I also heard they each received a stick sausage as consolation prize.
With this event as a trigger, the training of the strong homeroom teacher, who worried about the muscle loss of the weak-armed senior bastards, became even harsher.
‘In the end, what 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards obtained was just one sausage, huh?’
The seniors were defeated, but I didn’t feel even a little sorry for them.
Though it seemed they were crying in some unseen place.
As such, I peacefully welcomed weekend, but an annoying message arrived in the morning.
[Cunning] It’s weekend, are You busy?
[Cunning] I want to give You the home returning gift!
[Cunning] Today if possible.
But I didn’t exactly want to receive it.
As not only he prepared two gifts, he also used a polite tone, so I didn’t like it at all.
I was able to postpone receiving the gifts, because I luckily had an excuse.
[Me] I have a prior appointment today, so it seems difficult to meet.
I roughly finished a polite message and closed the device screen.
Cheon Dongha, who confirmed I finished writing the message, asked:
“Uisin-ah, shall we come in?”
“Yes.”
In front of Hwang Myeong-ho’s great mansion.
I and Cheon Dongha rang the doorbell.
*~*~*
[1] stick sausage — the most popular (at least at the time of writing, who knows the future) mark of stick sausages is 천하장사(cheonhajangsa), whose logo depicts a character in ssireum (Korean wrestling) attire, showing off his muscular arm.
Translator’s note: I’m going to be sad for the 3rd year class 0! And not going to hide it!
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